1st Edition

Cosmopolitanism and Translation Investigations into the Experience of the Foreign

By Esperanca Bielsa Copyright 2016
198 Pages
by Routledge

198 Pages
by Routledge

198 Pages
by Routledge

Social theories of the new cosmopolitanism have called attention to the central importance of translation, in areas such as global democracy, human rights and social movements, but translation studies has not engaged systematically with theories of cosmopolitanism. In Cosmopolitanism and Translation , Esperança Bielsa does just that by focussing on the lived experience of the cosmopolitan... Read more

Contents

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1. Introduction: Cosmopolitanism and Translation

Part 1. The Stranger

Chapter 2. Towards a Sociology of Strangerhood

Chapter 3. Redefining the Stranger in a Cosmopolitan Context

Part 2. World Literature

Chapter 4. Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism, World Literature and Translation

Chapter 5. Roberto Bolaño’s Reception in Spanish and English

Part 3. Social Theory

Chapter 6. Translating Sociology

Chapter 7. Theodor W. Adorno’s Homecoming

Part 4. Foreign News

Chapter 8. A Cosmopolitan Perspective on News Translation

Chapter 9. Tiziano Terzani’s Asia

Biography

Esperanca Bielsa